Lyche Island


Lyche Island (48˚57'00" 125˚33'00" Ucluelet Inlet, NW side of Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). August Herman Lyche (1864–1939), who was born at Dramman, Norway, came to Ucluelet in the early 1890s with fellow settler John Kvarno (see Kvarno I) and was induced to stay by trader William Spring. He received a Crown grant of land there in 1907. Lyche married Alice Greenwood Lee (1871–1928) at Victoria in 1890 and died at Port Alberni. This feature was known for many years as Channel I and...

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